Articles allow you to put your “footprints” literally all over the internet. It is a great form of promotion and it is considered one of the best internet marketing tactics.

Once are through with your market research, you now should have more than a general understanding of what you will be writing about, so that you will gain the interest of those within your niche.

Once you submitt an article to a directory such as Ezinearticles.com, it  allows people to pick it (complete with your name and website link) and use it on their website. For them is great because they don’t need to think of unique articls to write on their sites and blogs, and for you it means more backlinks to your site and hopefully more visitors once people follow your resource box to your website.

Truth is almost all online marketing strategies involve writing unique articles to generate traffic. You might also heard of viral marketing. This consists of distributing articles to websites within your niche. So what you can do is once you wrote a few unique and well crafted articles, contact some webmasters in your niche and ask them if they’d consider posting some of your articles on their site in return for a backlink to you rsite. Most webmasters will be happy to use your articles as it means they are getting free content for their site.

If you ask anyone, the best article directory to submit to is by far Ezinearticles.com. It really has grown to become the biggest and most used directory and if you think of using article only sporadically and don’t feel like submitting to zillions of article directories, use Ezine to submit to at least, as it will be well worth your time and effort.

When it comes to actually writing articles, it is really not as tough as you may think. And once you have written a few of them you will get the hang of it and will be able to produce your next articles in no time. Of course, if you’re not an article writing type of person, you can always outsource the articles to someone at Elance or Rentacoder, or some other webmaster forum. For a relatively small amount of money you will find some great native English that will craft your articles fast.

Internet marketing involves a number of different ways of generating traffic to your site through website promotion techniques and here are 3 of the most important ones.

1. Email Marketing
   Email marketing involves gathering a list of leads and emailing them on a regular basis. What you need to do is  place an optin form on your website (using Aweber or Getresponse, these two being the mostly used autoresponders around) and people can sign up through there. You will then need to send out informative emails on a regular basis and occasionally send out an offer containing your affiliate link. This is how you will build a long term customer base and sell to them. It will also bring the leads to your site as you can link to your site from your email newsletter.
2. Article Marketing - or bum marketing
   Article marketing means you will be writing articles evolving around your niche topic which you will then submit to various article directories such as ezinearticles.com and isnare.com. As these directories are visited by thousands of web publishers, they are able to use your articles on their sites whilst keeping your website link at the end of the article. Bum marketing has really proved to be a very reliable and important way to generate traffic and backlinks to your website.
3. Online Advertising
   You might opt to advertise in ezines or on other websites. This is a great way to get traffic to your site specially when you are advertising on popular websites. Of course, those sites should be somewhat related to your niche so people actually click on the ads and come to your site. It will cost you a monthly fee to place a banner or text link on a popular website and that is not cheap, but in most cases it is really worthwhile doing so.